GPS World

NASA wants to use GPS at the Moon for Artemis missions

News from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center GPS could be used to pilot in and around lunar orbit during future Artemis missions. A team at NASA is developing a special receiver that would be able to ...
TechCrunch

GPS on the Moon? NASA’s working on it

If you’re driving your car from Portland to Merced, you probably rely on GPS to see where you are. But what if you’re driving your Moon rover from Oceanus Procellarum to the Sea of Tranquility?
New Atlas

NASA laser backpack promises GPS-free Moon mapping and navigation

NASA and partners are developing backpack-sized technology for future Moon explorers that will allow them to map and navigate the lunar surface in the darkness of the high polar regions to within a ...
Aviation Week

NASA Acquires GPS Signal On Moon

Earth-orbiting GNSS may enable navigation on the Moon and in cislunar space, NASA says. Credit: NASA NASA and the Italian Space Agency have acquired GPS and Galileo global navigation satellite system ...
SpaceNews

NASA Tests GPS Monitoring System for Big U.S. Earthquakes

WASHINGTON — The space-based technology that lets GPS-equipped motorists constantly update their precise location will undergo a major test of its ability to rapidly pinpoint the location and ...
NDTV

Now, NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals On Moon

NASA has achieved another milestone after it successfully received GPS signals on the Moon. Its Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE), with the assistance of the Italian Space Agency, has become the ...
SpaceNews

NASA Uses GPS to Find Sierra Water Weight

For the first time, NASA scientists have used GPS to find the total weight of winter snowpack and soil moisture in California’s Sierra Nevada. The new results complement other satellite measurements ...
Space.com

High-Flying NASA Mission Sets New GPS World Record

A NASA mission's GPS prowess is now part of the record books: The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission just broke a Guinness World Record for highest altitude fix of a GPS signal. The four MMS ...
The Verge

NASA begins testing GPS-based earthquake and tsunami detection system

NASA announced today that it has begun testing a GPS system designed to locate the precise position of serious earthquakes within the western US. NASA announced today that it has begun testing a GPS ...
GPS World

NASA describes expected impact of total eclipse on GPS

NASA has issued a statement to let the GPS community know what to expect when the total solar eclipse takes place across America on Aug. 21. On Aug. 21, the eclipse will cross all of North America.
The Independent

Nasa uses GPS on the Moon for the first time

Nasa has successfully used GPS navigation on the lunar surface for the first time. The demonstration, which also involved the Italian Space Agency, is expected to signal a new era of exploration and ...